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Word: basic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...basic causes of the St. Paul failure run back many years. In general, they can be summarized as the failure of the road's earnings to sustain its tremendous capitalization. In part, the bankruptcy can be attributed to one of the greatest gambles ever taken in U. S. railroading?the construction of the 1,400 miles "Puget Sound extension" which carried the road from the Middle West to the Pacific Coast, 15 years ago. Previous to this time, the St. Paul had been a prosperous "granger" road in the Middle West. But James J. Hill and others had pressed their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: The St. Paul | 3/30/1925 | See Source »

...markets have acted very well under advancing money rates. Yet evidence accumulates that a turn in the trade cycle is at hand. For the first time in nine months, wholesale commodity prices have shown a general tendency to recede. In the basic industries, production is high and, while consumption is apparently good, a tendency to create heavy stocks and inventories is undoubtedly present. Easy money, by promising the wherewithal to carry these, is a factor facilitating the creation of a top-heavy business situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Current Situation: Mar. 16, 1925 | 3/16/1925 | See Source »

Originally, a British producer controlled this country's artificial silk output through possession of basic patents. In 1920, these patents ran out; and since that time, the U. S. fibre-silk business has experienced an enormous expansion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Rayon | 3/16/1925 | See Source »

...Delegation, headed by Representative Stephen G. Porter of Pennsylvania, was bound by a joint resolution of the U. S. Congress not to sign any agreement which did not plainly embody the above two basic principles of the International Opium Conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: More Poppy Talk | 2/16/1925 | See Source »

...royal state in which he now lives has firmly impressed upon a large percentage of the Hungarian people that the cavalry Admiral Inquisitioner of the White Terror, the Protestant apostate (he embraced Roman Catholicism when he became Regent, ''not unmindful," say some, "of the Hungarian basic law" which, limits succession to the throne to Roman Catholics") is not only a traitor to his King, but a man deserving the utmost contempt from the country and the world at large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Narrow | 2/9/1925 | See Source »

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